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-In the third quarter of 2018, the U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.5% after rising 4.2% in the second quarter. Growth remained strong, but its composition deteriorated, as inventories accounted for almost two-thirds of the growth. Growth was led by consumer spending, which contributed 2.45% to growth, down from 2.6% in the second quarter, and inventories, which contributed 2.3%.
-U.S. employers added 2,268,000 jobs from January to November 2018, more jobs than in 2017.
Unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% at the end of November, the lowest level since 1969, while year…
Due to historically low internal saving rates, access to external financing is very important to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), even more so in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public financing falls short of what is needed for this task and must be complemented with private flows, which in fact make up the bulk of the region’s external financing. The credit quality of the sovereigns in the region has an important role in determining how costly the access to private external financing can be.
This report examines the his…
21 Nov 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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‘Positive Community, Positive Role Models’ is the theme of the event to celebrate two important initiatives, which are the International Men’s Day, and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, jointly organized by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, the UN system and several civil society organisations. The event will take place at the Enterprise Government Primary School in Cunupia on 24 November 2018 from 12 noon to 5 pm. This event is free and open to the public. It will be a unique opportunity to highlight the important role that men and boys can and should p…
8 Oct 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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This study was prepared under the United Nations Development Account project “Enhancing the Contribution of Preferential Trade Agreements to Inclusive and Equitable Trade”, implemented by the United Nations Regional Commissions for Asia (ESCAP), Africa (ECA) and Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The project’s objective is to facilitate the negotiation of fair and equitable trade agreements that can contribute to a vision of development that combines growth with social inclusion.
The study evaluates the economic and social impacts resulting from the potential increase of commercial relat…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:24
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This paper examines the genesis and evolution of debt and debt overhang in the Caribbean with individual case studies, to extract lessons and make broad recommendations with regard to appropriate mechanisms and policy measures that can be implemented to reduce the debt burden of the subregion. The econometric model utilized in the paper has shown that a one percent increase on debt to GDP ratio causes a 0.015decline in real GDP growth for the countries in the Caribbean panel, suggesting that debt has a pernicious effect on growth on Caribbean economies. What is even more worrisome was that Car…
26 Oct 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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Three Caribbean countries will benefit from disaster training workshops over the last quarter of this year. Between October and December 2018, a team of experts from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, led by the Coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit, Dr. Omar Bello, will conduct Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) trainings in Anguilla, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos islands.
The training courses are offered as a follow-up to the disaster assessment missions carried out last year to quan…
27 Ago 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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This book compiles and adapts different chapters written by the author during the last decades on the topic of Caribbean development. On the one hand, the document provides the reader with the opportunity to travel in time acknowledging the evolution of academia, paradigms, and frameworks regarding the Caribbean. On the other hand, it shows the reader how many of the action plans and strategies suggested through the years are still relevant and how many of the challenges and structures of Caribbean nations have not changed radically over the years, once again stressing the urgent need for acti…
26 Mar 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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This study identifies the critical success factors that have resulted in the global competitiveness and sustainability of individuals, firms and ventures within the music and film subsectors in Jamaica. To anchor the study of the individual firms and ventures, the study first evaluates the historical evolution and recent trends in the development of the music and film subsectors, including their economic contribution and the main challenges and opportunities for their further development and lessons learned.…
This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Washington Office, presents and analyzes the most recent developments (first quarter of 2018) concerning capital flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The main highlights are:
-In January 2018, issuers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) placed their highest ever monthly volume of debt in international markets. First quarter debt issuance in international markets also broke a record.
-From January to May 2018, total LAC international debt issuance amounted to US$ 67 billion, 6% higher than…
17 Mayo 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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Over one hundred Argentinian public officials benefitted from a comprehensive analysis of the DaLA approach vis-à-vis various sectors including population, housing, education, health, transportation, water and sewerage, and agriculture. The DaLA methodology adopts a multisectoral approach to estimate the effects and impacts of natural disasters in terms of damage, losses, and additional costs.
Both workshops were carried out at the request of the Ministry of Security of Argentina, which is the institution responsible for disaster response at the national level. The first training, which took p…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:23
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This study presents a situation analysis of persons with disability in the Caribbean. It includes a compilation and analysis of national census data from 16 countries including data from both the 2000 and the 2010 census rounds. The study also assesses national laws, policies and programmes in the context of relevant international treaties and agreements. The topics covered include health and rehabilitation, accessible buildings, transport, information and communications technology, education and labour market participation. In each of these areas, good practices, gaps, and priorities for acti…
ECLAC has been a pioneer in the field of disaster assessment and in the development and dissemination of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology. Following several devastating hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters over the last few years in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC has carried out several successful DaLA missions.
Now ECLAC has introduced a Disaster Assessment Methodology Exercise Guide, developed for the DaLA trainings. The guide consists of 12 practical exercises about how to estimate the effects on several sectors including electricity, educatio…
Having timely and adequate access to environmental information, fostering the effective engagement of all interested parties in environmental decision-making and safeguarding access to environmental justice are important prerequisites of sustainable development.
Seeking to contribute to environmental democracy and sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy of Law and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have joined forces to compile the normative foundations and judicial developments that underpin the effective enjoyme…
20 Dic 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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Nota informativa
The U.S. economic expansion, which is in its tenth year, is approaching record length but not strength. November marked the 113th month of growth for the U.S. economy, and there have been 38 consecutive quarters of growth. This is the second longest expansion on record, only the 1991-2001 expansion is longer, and it is expected to continue into next year and become the longest on record.…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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This study is intended to be exploratory in nature. It seeks a better understanding of i) how the OMU cluster emerged; ii) the characteristics of the offshore medical universities in the Caribbean cluster; iii) the contribution of the offshore medical universities to the economy of the host Caribbean countries; and iv) the prospects for enhancing the educational quality, and value added captured by the Caribbean in the medical value chain.…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, llamó hoy a promover y apoyar la integración del trabajo decente y fin de la pobreza y la desigualdad en las políticas, estrategias y programas nacionales y globales para asegurar “que nadie se quede atrás”.
La máxima representante del organismo regional participó en la sesión “Sin dejar a nadie atrás: ¿estamos teniendo éxito?” (Leaving no one behind: are we succeeding?), realizada en el marco del Foro Político de Alto Nivel sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible que se celebra hasta el 18 de jul…
El Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) N⁰ 11 -que busca lograr ciudades y asentamientos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes y sostenibles- enfrenta una serie de desafíos entre los cuales el acceso al financiamiento y a mejores capacidades fiscales a nivel local son cruciales para alcanzar un desarrollo urbano sostenible, indicó hoy Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), durante un evento paralelo al Foro Político de Alto Nivel (HLPF, por sus siglas en inglés), que se realiza en Nueva York.
En la reunión titulada “Im…
13 Feb 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:35
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The U.S. economic expansion remains on track and it has entered its ninth year. January marked the 103th month of growth for the U.S. economy. By May, the current economic expansion will become the second longest on record.1 The unemployment rate sits at 4.1%, the lowest level since December 2000, suggesting the economy has reached, or nearly reached, full capacity.…
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Alicia Bárcena, destacó en París, Francia, que la iniciativa propuesta por China sobre la Franja y la Ruta (conocida como BRI por sus siglas en inglés, de Belt and Road Initiative) podría ser una importante oportunidad para impulsar inversiones inclusivas y sostenibles.
Bárcena realizó este viernes 7 de diciembre una presentación en el cuarto Foro de la Ruta de la Seda (Silk Road Forum), realizado en la capital francesa por el Centro Chino para el Conocimiento Internacional sobre el Desarrollo (CIKD, por …
20 Abr 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 13:21
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Comunicado de prensa
Representantes de 28 países de América Latina y el Caribe, 35 organizaciones no gubernamentales, organismos especializados intergubernamentales y agencias del sistema de las Naciones Unidas, y más de 300 miembros del sector privado, academia y sociedad civil, finalizaron hoy en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile la segunda reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible con el compromiso renovado de redoblar esfuerzos en la inclusión de todos los sectores involucrados -público, privado y sociedad civil- para avanzar en el logro de los objetivos…